Howard Rheingold Quotes

American - Critic | July 7, 1947 -

There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.

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The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it's going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the news to maintain that level of control.

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It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

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Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

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You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

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People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch.

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Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change.

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The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you.

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The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it.

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The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know.

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Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

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Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

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